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CHEROKEE NATION 



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United States, 



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Semite aito louse of ^mntatifttfl in Congress. 



V/ASHINGTON CHRONICLE PRINT, 

1866. 






To the President of the United States, and to the Senate and Hte*. 

of Representatives. 

ment iathe Indian Territory." _ onviction of ur people, that 

It is our solemn conviction and the c0 ^ lct ^ c ° ution & J [n cruah 
if that bill becomes a law, and is wuduito exe ^ such 

us as a people, and destroy ns as a Ration. ^»°P e ° Wch wil f show 
^Sr^S^i^ claim on them to 

gamzedfortwoorthieeyeats jiiuij l the 

the lead of Stand Wa.e, lately a Geae.aUn tie re infl > ence9 
disloyal element, (smal 1 in numbers ^b **"£«* £f t o "Blue Lodges," 

and "K»Wto .f *h. 0°ld» B C »*■£, J emselves int o a Loyal 

^tno^asT^oofha fc%%%£2£S^ 

blooded Indians. rn •, hn(1(1 to encroachments on 

The object of this League was resist race to e jc 10a inte . r ity 

sacred obligations, to an nnyield.ng Mel, y to our t ™» • 

United States, and to an unfaltering suppoitot ourownr 
ernment, constituted under those treaties. ^^ 8 ^ of T. 
formed in every part of ~ «"»giJ*JSy ve „ hei'd among the 

ssaWtwsKL srjs •«»»--• 

sfc^JitaHJS^ MSS Th V rCsiti„n to 
» was SenT 'While some members of the Society = 
pro-slavery in their sentiments, yet hey . »vcd the ^ con, J 
han slavery-while the great ™J«"^1 *^ „S wore op- 

conviction also. txt„*:^ M ; a0 rl ^ robel reeiment, cou- 

Whcn hostilities began, S and Watie raided a ^ rebel reg , 

sisting chiefly of the most desperate characters. Ibere *e 



full bloodod Cherokees in this regiment, and a somewhat larger num- 
ber of mixed blooded Cherokees, but the majority of the regiment 
were white men, and the majority of those white men were not citizens 
»l tfte Lherokee -Nation. Set, all the odium of their depredations was 

f^dJed on to the Chei i Ti desperadoes and their friends 

made several attempts to raise the rebel standard in the Cherokee 
, ' " "on, the loyal populace. either prevent- 

ed the raising of the rebel flag, or tore it down when raised, and 
<ii>P<r-. ; i those making the treasonable demonstrations, until at 
,,"- :i ; •■":'.' rebeU !•"! i" holding a convention at Jiatie's 

*hicb was attended by a very small number. There thev 
completed their arrangements for a formal alliance with the Con- 
[efleracy. 

collisions had already takei place between the Loyal Che- 
rokees and the rebelsin their midst, and a general fight seemed immi- 

such a fight had occurred, there would have been no chance 
' l! ~ n foru *. as the whol ofB i McCulloch's for ready 

upon as, while the Choctaws and Ohickasaws, and many 
"'■ '; ' ■- and Seminoles had already joined the rebellion We 

and Opothleyoholo'a uoble band of Cnwka and Seminoles si 1 alone 

'" our loyalty : but we were Car from the counsel, and the pledged pro- 
Q of our friend and guardian, the [Jnited States Government 
L j and earnestly were we solicited to join the rebellion, but we 
m I mally the time for solicitation passed, and the time for 
'•"mpu ->,,„ came. V, friend or defender was near. The army of 
'Z:' i,0 - [i ; l:oh r lU '- ?»■««*»' wMgon* Every post in taVli 
Jim country and Its vicinity was abandoned, and all the Indian 
| ; |i| 1 " that conotry *ere traitors, eveo those appointed by Mr. 

While thus environed, as the only means of averting the wholesale 
hter of the loyal Cher, .nvention was ellled. 1 that 

cntion (Augusl 91s1 1861 I under duress the most complete and 

-."■. I-P- polled to empower theauYhorf 

> ■"■■•• to treat with the rebela We repeat it with 

V"'"' eld, and this acti wtake Tyas 

' ";"' ' ' "'/ ' ^termination. \ hand of Stand Wotie's Rebels 

; adalr ;( a,lv,.,n,-,al,,lann,ina hotel, in front of the public Squwe 

held. In case the convention had dl 

contrary eoorse, this band was prepared then and there 

ion on the loyal Cherokees. But by S 

i l , nvention, a collision with tha ed for the 

v ""--"- nt to Albert Pi . i;. tx , Com- 

'-vthat we w,ro ready to make a treaty, wnich we hS 

hclav r a ,K h0rtl ' , ? 10p / ' *7 was entered into on 

l '"""-" '» ■ m hoped still toaverl a 

;;-;'' ■'"-'■■■i Jd reach 1 from th e 

Lhedepredatl v, weresoi 

mg with the rebel army, but really for the purpose 

•orydayc miftedo aUempteS 

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was entered into, this regiment was taken into the rebel ^service, but 
must of its officers, and nearly all of its men were as earnestly ^ loyal 
to the United States as any soldiers in the Union service Jh s you 
may doubt, but the reality and earnestness of thei r loyalty wm u 
abundantly verified by their conduct subsequent to the convent on 
and the treaty, as it was by their previous course. (,iv.- , us your at- 
tention while we state a few facts which prove this aaae,rtK>n. _ 
Opothleyoholo, and the loyal Creeks and Semmoles> Mid portions 
of other tribes, had been driven from their country by the rebels, and 
were camped in the western part of the Cherokee country. «en 
Cooper (rebel) had sent Captain McDaniel, of the CHerok e egunen 
(and one of our delegates now present.) with a party to induce those 
loyal Indians to come in and submit to the rebel author* . ' Cap 
McDaniel went, but instead of fulfilling this mission, he and his men 
joined the loyal Indians. ,,_!.,,, 

J Still, however, he kept up communication with Gen. Cooper, but 
whenever he sent a despatch purporting to inform the general of the 
progress of his mission, he always sent a secret message to the Union 
League, in the rebel service, informing them of Ins real movements 
Finally, Gen. Cooper discovered the trick and marched his whole 
brigade against Opothleyoholo and Capt, McDaniel On the 7th of 
December, 1861, Cooper camped near his enemy. Member i of the 
Union League were placed on picket. At nig hfc Capt McDanielap. 
preached them, was cordially received, passed into the rebel camp 
and consulted with his friends. They decided that since they ^were 
compelled to fight, they would take their own choice as to the side 
on which they would fight. Capt. McDaniel carried back with hun 
to the Union Indians, a good supply of ammunition, taken from the 

VC ctpTlay in camp until the morning of December 9th, when he 
discovered that the Cherokee regiment was entirely broken up. 1 
captains, and five hundred (500) men had gone over to the .Union 
Indians, carrying with them arms and ammunition, making now over 
six hundred (600) Cherokee warriors, on the Lnion side. Others 
belonging to the regiment scattered, and only a small remnant was 

' e Aftcr a S Cooper was afraid to risk a fight, and began to re treat 
But a scout from Stand Watie's regiment captured some of the lojal 
Oherokecs, and ran with them to the rebel lines. Our men Pursued. 
but the rebels had killed some of the prisoners before they could get 
to their rescue. This brought on a general engagement, and we 
fought the rebels for six hours, when they Bed in confusion, leaving 
their dead and wounded in our hands. w5f i,: n fwn 

All this was done when there was no Federal force Within two 
hundred (200) miles of us, and no communication with the Unitea 
States Government or its officers. Solitary and alone, we fought for 
the Government, when she was unable to redeem her pledge ol pro- 
tection, repeated in every treaty for three quarters ol a century ana 
which, in the Treaty of 1835, Article 0th, is thus expressed: « 

United States agree to protect the Cherokees from domestic strife Mid 
foreign enemies, and against intestine wars between the several 
tribes." 



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.\ ter this fight, Capt McDaniel was sent to Kansas, with all speed, 
to beg fche Federal authorities to help as maintain our ground. But 
in that dark hour of calamity, when in our fidelity to the Union — we 
had staked our, all — our property — our homes — our country and our 
no help could be bad. 
We cannot adequately depict the scenes which followed in conse- 
qnence of this failure to obtain help from fche Federal army, aa seven 
thousand (t,000) loyal Indians were driven before a foe, infuriated 
by defeat, and strongly reinforced. With their eyes turned toward 
the North, ever hoping for buccot, the warriors battled in the rear. 
covering the retreat, while the old men.Vith women and children, 
half starved, half clothed, bare footed, waded through the frozen 
snows, and breasted the keen windSOn the prairies. Never will their 
known*. Frozen hands and feet — starved and emaciated 
frami - — \\ [fl \'<\<r~, and lingering diseases, filling a thousand prema- 
tura all bear witness to their patriotic suffering 

The patriotic devotion of these people has rarely been equalled in 
the annals of history. On the Soutk was Texas — on the East were 
Arkansas and Missouri — all hostile — to the North it was more than 
two hundred (200) miles to the neafesl aid. A large pan of that 
andred mile-, was an uninhabited wild, and unprotected from 
tie- enemy. let that battle was fought by these warriors, and that 
ace was marched by men, women and children, without aid from 
Dhited States Government or people. Nad the inhabitants of 
county in North Carolina started of their own accord to escape 
tree oi rebellion, and fought and whipped a rebel brigade, and 
:hed to Washington, even through the cultivated lands of Vir- 
ginia, they would justly have been landed as heroes. Had these things 

by the African race, the history of that fight and march 
■l have been sung in paean- of praise all over the land. 
After incredible miseries, these ('reck-. Seminole-- and Cherol 
ami individuals of the tribes '.'cached Kansas. 

I -lion of the Cherokee warriors who had taken part in this 

fight, but whose families were at home, returned home from the hat- 
tic Qpon the interposition of the Chief, (Jen. Cooper decided to 
waive an Investigation, and overlook this whole affair. The officers 

permitted to resign. The men returned to the service, and that 
portion of the regiment which had not gone to Kansas, Was once more 

brought together. These loyal men accepted such terms, simply lie- 
there \\ a - Dothing else that they could do. to escape being 

hunted down like wild ■ id keep their families from beil 

: abuse the rebels might see fit to heap upon them. With 

■ hey waited for the day of deliven 

under the e\ e and in the pom er of an ever watchful and suspicion-, foe. 

In the sunin at long wished for deliverance came. 

I a army, under < -i William Wefr, entered our borders. 

more than forty \ . are had been a M 

from the Baptist Missionary Union, ami his Bon, 

J I '■ J M -iouar\ among us, from 

1 McDaniel, with many others who had 

our country by the rebels, wire in that army as 

; McDaniel sent a member of the 



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Loyal League, with a message and a letter, to those members of the 
League who were in the rebel camp. They invited them to forsake 
the hated standard and enlist under the Stars and Stripes. The 
Cherokee regiment, in the rebel service, again fell to pieces. The 
men scattered to every part of the Nation, gathered together their 
friends, and marched into the Union camp, and enlisted in the Fede- 
ral army. As the result of this movement, two regiments of Cliern- 
kees were raised, one of ten companies, and the other of twelve. 
These, together with the regiment of Creeks and Semino^es, which 
was already in the Union army, were formed into the Indian Brigade. 
They were now assured by United States Agents, Carruth and Mar- 
tin, •• That the Government was prepared to fulfill all its treaty obli- 
gations to the Cherokees." 

At the very earliest day that the exigencies of the war would per- 
mit, the National Council was convened in extra session. It met at 
Cowskin Prairie, in the Cherokee Nation, in February, 1863. There 
the treaty with the rebels was declared to have been entered into 
under duress, and, therefore, to have no binding effect, either in law 
or morals. It was, therefore, abrogated and revoked, and declared 
to be null and void. But this Council did not stop here. It passed 
an act expelling from office every disloyal person, and declared their 
offices vacant. To make their work complete, at that early day (Feb- 
ruary, 1863,) — before any slave State made a movement towards 
emancipation — the Cherokee Nation abolished Slavery uncondition- 
ally and forever, and the enslaving or the holding in slavery of a 
human being within the limits of the Cherokee Nation, was declared 
to be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of from one thousand to 
five thousand dollars for every offence. These acts are hereunto 
appended for your information. 

The Cherokee regiments mentioned above fought for the Union in 
the battles of Bayou Maynard, Spring River, Newtonia, Mayesville, 
Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, twice at Cabin Creek, twice at Fort Gib- 
son, at Barren Fork, Honey Springs and Green Leaf — together with 
many other smaller fights. Under that gallant officer, Col. Wm. A. Phil- 
lips, the Indian brigade for many months held the most advanced 
line of the Union army on the south-west, and that against vastly 
superior numbers, and far removed from supplies or any supporting 
force. 

How well we have served the Government through all the vary- 
ing fortunes of the war we will not say. We appeal to the test i nin- 
ny of the white officers by whose side and under whose command 
Ave have fought for three years. And we beg leave, respectfully, 
to refer to a letter written November 21st, 1862, by Gen. J. G. 
Blunt, then commanding the Army of the Frontier, to Hon. Caleb 1». 
Smith, then Secretary of the Interior. In speaking of a Cherokee 
regiment Gen. Blunt says, "It is but justice to say of them, that their 
discipline and deportment are as good as those of any other troops, and 
their services of as much, nay of more value to the government in 
this section of the country than those of any other regiment in the 
service." 

But especially do we appeal to the testimony of Col. William A 
Phillips, who so long and so nobly commanded the Indian brigade, 



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His ample reports are filed in the proper Departments. Let him tell 
with what zeal and constancy WC have fought and lahored and suf- 
fered in the service of the Inion. 

We boldly claim that we have done our duty, to the full extent of 
our power, aa the friends and allies of the Federal Government. More 
than three fourths of the ahle bodied men of the Loyal Cherokees, fought 
in the Federal army, which is a vastly larger proportion of men than 
any Siate in the Onion has furnished for the war. We fought to the 
end of the war, and after the Last rebel was whipped, we were honor- 
ably mustered out of th^eservi f eight hundred Chero- 
kee warriors, fallen by our >idc in your Service, testify that we have 

done <mr duty. Now, having done our whole duty to bhe Govern- 
ment, all we ask is that the Government do its duty to us — that it 
fulfill its treaty obligations tons — that itredeem its solemn, reiterated 
pledges. We ask no gifts, no charities, but -imply our rights— the 
rights for which we bare fought and bled in your armies, and for 
which so many of our noblest men have died. 

We make our earnest appeal to the Presidenl of the United States 
and to Congress. We entreat you to regard sacredly yourpast trea- 
ties with us, and to enact no Law that shall sweep out of existence 
those most sacred rights which yod have guaranteed to us forever. 

In the 5th Article of the Treaty of 1835, we find this pledge, viz.: 
"The United States hereby cov< lanl and agree, thai the lands ceded 
to the Cherokee Nation in the foregoing articles, shall in no future 
time, without their consent, be included within the territorial limits 
or jurisdiction of any State or Territory." Similar pledges have been 
repeated in other treaties. ('., , j , u now violate this stipulation, by 
including us in the Indian territory wbicb this bill proposesto erect? 
We have already suffered enough in this way. By the Kansas and 
Nebraska bill, a tracl of eigbl h indred thousand (800.000) acres of 
our land, for which we paid to the Government half a million of dol- 
lars ($500,000), was included ip the territory of Kansas. Ll is now 
in the State of Kansas, and to a -it i- inhabited by white 

people. This measure w.t I year.- before the war, and in vi 

lation of the express terms of our tr cited above. (See, ah 

Article 2d, lasl ■ . and Article Bd, of the same treaty.) If such a 
state of things should arise in transactions between individuals, the 

very least demand of justioe would be to pay the full value of that 
traet of land to l be injured party. 

But again, io Article 5th, of ti r I above, it is 

covenanted and agreed thai the United States "shall secure to the 
Oberokee Nation, the right, by their National Councils to make and 
I \ into effect sacfa laws as they may deem necessary for the govern- 
ment and protection of the persons and property within their own 

oountry belonging to their people, i inected 

themselves with them " < Ian j on now. in the face of this pl< dge, af- 
ter we dave forme, | ■ c institutional Q ivernment, and so long, and 
uceesfully administered it. can J from as the Last postage 

oftbe right of self-government, by placing us under a Governor, 
Jud m td Attornej -. in I hi of \\ bom we arc to 

no voice; and a Governor, ■ lb Buch extraordinary 

powers, that do law can be past to? thus, not only sub- 



verting our present government, but rendering it impossible for us 
ever, to have any government of our own. 

Have we not suffered enough, in that the torch, both of friend and 
foe, has consumed our dwellings, and desolated our land, and in that 
the armies of both parties to the war have subsisted on our cattle? 
While we were fighting the battles of the Union, our land, which 
you could not protect, though pledged to do so, ^fts infested by "Jay- 
hawkers," and army followers from the North, who drove out and 
carried from our country, millions of dollars worth of stock and other 
property, so that we are utterly impoverished. In confirmation of 
this statement, we cpiote the words of Hon. Justin Harlan, U. S. In- 
dian Agent, in his report for 1864. Judge Harlan says, " While the 
rebels, bushwhackers, and guerillas, have taken [from the Cherokees] 
horses, cattle, hogs, corn, and other crops — all they wanted — white 
men, loyal, or pretending to be so, have taken five times as much, and 
all kinds of stock has been driven North and West, and sold." We 
might quote much more of the same purport. 

That which aggravates our sorrow still more, is the fact, that all 
the robbers and jayhawkers, who have been stealing our stock, and 
all the faithless officials, who have been plundering both the Govern- 
ment and the Indians, are loud in denouncing the Cherokees as rebels 
— hoping by their unscrupulous slanders, to divert attention from 
their own villainy. Thus they have deceived and misled many good 
and honest men. We are wronged and belied, while war and pesti- 
lence and famine have filled our land with mourning and death. 

During the progress of the war, white and African refugees have 
been fed and clothed atpublic expense. Of this we do not complain. 
But when our people were driven from their homes, in which the 
United States was bound to protect them, the Indians' own money 
was appropriated to feed them, and these appropriations were so used 
that scarcely a tithe of the money's value ever reached the Indians. 

Ye Rulers of America, our cry is unto you as unto God-fearing 
men. Let justice be done — Let our country, and the sacred right of 
self-government, guaranteed by treaties, be secured to us — Give us a 
reasonable indeminty for our losses — Let an equitable settlement be 
! made for our lands in Kansas — Let the interestdue and accruing on our 
investments be paid over, as provided by treaty, that our Govern- 
ment and schools and seminaries may be sustained — that an orphan 
asylum may be provided for our thousand orphans, many of them the 
children of heroic soldiers, fallen fighting for the Union. 

Now that the unity of your own great Republic has been secured, 
and the blood and toil and suffering of patriotic Cherokees have 
helped to cement the Union, we ask that you preserve and protect 
both the integrity and the peace of our Nation, against the machinations 
of all those who would rend it to fragments. 

Our people are already far advanced in civilization, and are all 
anxious for still further advancement in all that pertains to civilization 
and Christianity. With the blessing of God, all we want to make us a 



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nappy and prosperous people, is ,bat the Government secnre to 
our rights, immovably. 



Smith Christie, Late Capt. Co. A, Third ] 

Indian Regt., U. S. V. , - 
James McDaniel, Late Capt Co. A, be- 

cond Indian Regt., U. b.\ • 
Thomas P«GG, Late Capt. Co. B, Third 

Indian Regt., I'. S. V. 
White Catcher, Late Capt. Co. lj W™ 

Indian Regt., U. S. V. 
DandslH. Ross, Late Sutler, Thirdlndian 

J. B. Jones, Late Chaplain, Second In- 
dian Regt, U. S. V- . 

S H Benue, Late 1st Lieut. ( O.A, third 
Indian Regt, l T . B. \ 



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Delegation 



Washington, D. C. January 24A, L866. 



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Whreas, on the 21st day of August, 1861, a General Convention of the 
people of the Cherokee Nation was held at Tahlequah, in the Cherokee Na- 
tion, -whereat it was " Resolved, That, reposing full confidence in the consti- 
tuted authorities of the Cherokee Nation, we submit to their wisdom the 
management of all questions which affect our interests, growing out of the 
exigencies of the relations between the United and the Confederate States of 
America, and which may render an alliance on our part with the latter States 
expedient and desirable," and, whereas, in accordance wilh said resolutions, 
a Treaty of Alliance and Friendship was entered into, on the 7th day of Oct., 
A. D., 1861, between Albert Pike, Commissioner representing said Con- 
federate States, and the said authorities of the Cherokee Nation. And, 
whereas, said proceedings were the result of the absence of the protection 
guaranteed to the Cherokee Nation, by the Government of the United States, 
and the overwhelming pressure of the circumstances which surrounded them, 
consisting in part of the secession of the States of Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, 
and the Creek, Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations, the presence of the 
troops of the Confederate States on our borders, and in our country, and the 
calling into the service of a regiment composed of disaffected Cherokees and 
whites, under the authority of Gen. McCulloch, and the purpose of the Con- 
federate States, as manifested by the Legislation of their Congress, and the act6 
of their Commissioners, to sieze the Indian country, through an arrangement 
with a reckless minority of the Cherokee people, or by force of arms, if neces- 
sary, and which said circumstances isolated the Cherokee Nation, weak and 
unarmed, and cut them off from communication with the Government at 
Washington, except through faithless Government Agents, and thus deprived 
them of all freedom, and coerced them into the acts cited above. 

And, whereas, acts performed under such duress, have no binding effect, in 
law or morals. 

Therefore : Be it enacted by the National Council, That the Treaty of the 
7th of October, 1861, between the Confederate States and the Cherokee 
Nation, and all proceedings had thereon, be and the same are hereby revoked 
and declared to be null and void. 

Be it further enacted, that the Cherokee people reassert the binding obliga- 
tions of their treaties with the United States, and claim at their hands the 
protection, rights, and privileges guaranteed by them, and due to the Chero- 
kee people by the fidelity they have shown to the Government, while in the 
service of her army. 

Be it further enacted, That the principal Chief be requested to call a conven- 
tion of the Cherokee people as early as practicable, and lay before them, for 
their approval and ratification, the provisions of this act. 

Cowskin Prairie, Cherokee Nation, | 
February 18th, 1863. ) 

Signed, 
LEWIS DOWNING, 

Pres. pro tern. National Committee. 
Concurred in Council, 

SPRING FROG, 

Speaker of Council. 

WILLIAM SCRAPER, 

Clerk of Council. 
Approved, Feb. 18th, 1863. 

THOMAS PEGG, 

Acting Principal Chief. 



An act for the removal of disloyal men from office. 

Be it enacted by the National Gonncil, That all officers of the Cherokee Na- 
tion, in the legislative, judicial, and executive departments, and all other 



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oflicers whatsoever, who are disloyal to the Government of the United Slates 
and to thai of the Cherokee Nation, he and the same are herehy removed 
from office, and their rcpective offices are hereby declared vacant. 

LEWIS DOWNING, 

Pies, pro tern., National Committee. 
J. B. JUNKS, Clerk National Committee. 
Cowskin Prairie, Cherokee Nation, ) 
February 20th, 18G3. j 

Concurred in Council, Feb. 20th, 1868. 

SPRING FROG, Speaker Council. 
WM. M. SCRAPER, Clerk Council. 
Approved, February 20th, 1868. 

THOS. PEGG, Acting Principal Chief. 



An Act Emancipating th {Jlavea in iht Cherokee Notion, 

I;, U enacted by th KtZ, That all Negro and other slaves, 

within the limits of the Cherokee Nation, be and they are hereby emanci- 
pated from slavery,— and any person or persons who may have been held in 
ulavery, are hereby declared to /<■ fori ot rfree. w 

H< it further enacted, Thai this act snail go into effect on the twenty-fifth 
(25th) day of June, 1888. And any person who, after the said 25th (lay of 
June, 1868, -hall offend against the provision- ot this act, by enalavi 
holding any person in slavery within the limits of the Cherokee Nation, he 
or she so offending shall, on conviction thereof before any of the Courts of 
this Nation having jurisdiction of tl forfeit and pay for each offence, 

a sum not [ess than one thousand ($1,000) dollar*, nor molt' than live thou- 
000) dollars, at the discretion of Hie Court. 

Two thirds of said fine shall be paid into the National Treasury, and one 
•hird -ball be paid, in equal sums, to the Solicitor and the Sheriff of the Dis- 
trict in which the offence shall have been committed. And, it is hereby, 
made the duty of the Solicitors, of the several , to see that this law 

. enforced. Rut in ease any Solicitor shall m gleel or fail to discharge 
lii- duties herein, and shall be convicted thereof, be -ball be deposed from his 

office, and -ball thereafter be Ineligible to bold any office ot trust or honor 

in this Nation. 
The Acting Principal Chief ii hereby re. mired to give due notice ot ti, 
/>. it further i lacted, That till laws and parts of law- conflicting with the 

provisions of this act, be and are hereby repealed. 

( towskin Prairie, C. N, -. 
P.!, aut, 1868. I 

k i i:\vis DOWNING, 

Clerk National Com. Pr< . National Committee. 



Concurred in Council, 

Approved Feb. Slat, 1868. 



BPRING PROG, Speaker of Council. 

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